OT: Blues Legend BB King Passes Away at 89
http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/15/entertainment/bb-king-dead/index.html
The thrill is gone indeed...
:(
RIP
Sadly, The Thrill Is Gone
First Ben E King now BB King
Saw B.B. twice over the years in two great venues (the State in Kalamazoo and the Egyptian Theater in DeKalb, Ill.). They were both tremendous shows.
If so, my mom, grandma, and aunts went to that show. That's all they talked about. My mom has a pictures of them all in front of his tour bus.
I have seen The King many, many times. B.B. could say so much with one gutiar note.
RIP King and Lucille
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his 15 children... 15!!!!
and 15 different baby-mommas. Talk about a posbang...
This sucks.
dang
I saw him many years ago at Meadowbrook (after jumping the fence with some Oakland U. acquaintances ... felt a little bad about that at the time and in retrospect am amazed that it was so easy to do). Great show.
Fred Sanford saw him, too:
Man...sad day the King will be missed.
This news although expected (he'd been in hospice for the past couple of weeks) gives me the blues...
RIP BB..
RIP. One of the most expressive guitarists I've ever heard.
Now he truly is Riding with the King. RIP blues man.
He didn't have much of a formal education, but he saw to it that all his kids went college. When asked why his was still recording and touring at his advanced age, he said he loved playing and was putting all his grandkids through college too. How awesome is that?
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http://youtu.be/6aGV6PRD0oU
I saw BB at the Hill Auditorium in 1996. Awesome show
I saw him at the Michigan Theater in 94 or 95 I think. I'm not a huge blues fan, but I play guitar so I wanted to see a legend. It was a very entertaining show.
embed fail but, man oh man: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mg3saFPE4m0
Saw him twice and just loved it. RIP.
I got to see BB twice, once at the Colorado Springs Performing Arts Center, which was fantastic with great acoustics.
The second time was at a small outdoor blues festival on Memorial Day weekend in Northern Alabama, which he of course headlined. This was a great venue, up close on a lawn chair, outside with the King of the Blues. He was about a hour late because he had already played elsewhere earlier in the day, and after he left this show he was off to play a 3rd show in another city on the same day!
This was in the mid 1990's so BB was around 70 at the time. If James Brown was the hardest working man in show business, BB was not far behind!
RIP Riley B King, and you too Lucille
Found out from a friend of mine, his grandson.
Sad day for everyone.
That sucks knowing that we'll never hear him or sweet Lucille again. That man was a true to life guitar hero. There are many lengendary guitarists, but very few of them can convey emotions through their instrument the way he did. One song, Lucile would be upbeat and happy, then on anothre she would be in the throes of utter despair. That shit is magical.
Mr King was good childhood friends with various members of my family down in Mississippi. My mom and her family are from there, and to hear how folks like them, Mr. King and others overcame abject poverty and brutal (and I mean brutal) racism is truly remarkable.
I saw BB King a number of times..
The first time was around 1985 when I took my 2 year old daughter to see him in a theatre in Saginaw; she graduated from UM 10 years ago and now teaches in northeast Michigan.
Another memorable time was when I took my family to see him in Huntsville, AL around 2001 or so and punk'd my son. We told him we had a surprise for him and drove to the civic center where BB was playing; it happened to coincide with the annual performances of the Nutcracker.. For about 30 minutes or so after we arrived, he was so pissed that we took him 'to the Nutcracker'. It wasn't until we actually took our seats that he realized why we were there..
BB, when I retire and finally have time to learn to play guitar properly, I hope to learn a few or your techniques..
his style of playing cannot be measured.
Blues musicians like King- who had first-hand experience and links to the Mississippi Delta music scene- are national treasures and are now increasingly scarce.
RIP B.B.